1st Edition
Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1939. This book consists chiefly of extracts from Chuang Tzu, Mencius and Han Fei Tzu. Chuang Tzu's appeal is to the imagination; the appeal of mencius is to the moral feelings; realism, as expounded by Han Fei Tzu , finds a close parallel in modern Totalitarianism and as a result these extracts from a book of the third century B.C. nonetheless have a very contemporary... Read more
Part 1 Chuang Tzu; Chapter 1 The Realm of Nothing Whatever; Chapter 2 Politics; Part 2 Mencius; Chapter 3 Mencius and the Kings; Chapter 4 The Rival Schools; Part 3 The Realists; Chapter 5 Epilogue;
Biography
Arthur Waley
"Fascinating both for its own sake and for its parallels with our own ways of thought in the West" - E M Forster
